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Where in the World is Bear Creek?

 (formerly on Ilene Schneider's blog)

Bear Creek is where Deputy Tempe Crabtree lives and works. It’s located in Central California in the Southern Sierra. (Sierra means mountains and this refers to the southern end of the mountain range.)

 Though Bear Creek is a fictional place it is very similar in many ways to Springville where I live. One big difference is I moved Bear Creek up in the mountains 1,000 feet. Why? I wanted better trees and more change in the seasons. I use weather a lot in my Tempe mysteries and I wanted more variety.

Another similarity to my town is that it runs alongside a river and there’s only one main street that runs through it. Though some businesses are similar, they have different names because with the exception of a couple, businesses don’t seem to last long in Springville.

Most people have never heard of Springville or Porterville, the closest city, that is changing now that the local Indian reservation now has a casino. Yes, the casino is in some of my mysteries, it’s called the Bear Creek Indian casino, though it doesn’t make an appearance in the latest, Spirit Shapes.

Tempe is the resident deputy of Bear Creek which covers much more territory than just the town. In Spirit Shapes most of the action is in and around a haunted house. She does visit the campground at the lake and her investigation takes her to one of the high schools.

Though Bear Creek is based on a real place, I have moved some things around a bit, though people who live in Springville don’t seem to have a problem with it—and do tell me that they recognized this or that.

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Blurb for Spirit Shapes: Ghost hunters stumble upon a murdered teen in a haunted house. Deputy Tempe Crabtree's investigation pulls her into a whirlwind of restless spirits, good and evil, intertwined with the past and the present, and demons and angels at war.

Marilyn

 


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